Weekend Passport: Sculpture exhibit examines our views on race

Weekend Passport: Sculpture exhibit examines our views on race
Weekend Passport: Sculpture exhibit examines our views on race

Weekend Passport: Sculpture exhibit examines our views on race

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Each week global citizen Nari Safavi helps listeners plan their international weekend. This week he’ll tell us about an exhibit at the Field Museum that re-examines our conceptions about race- starting in the 1930’s through today. He’s joined by curator Alaka Wali. Guests: Nari Safavi is one of the founders of Pasfarda Arts and Cultural Exchange Alaka Wali, is the curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Musuem. She is an urban anthropologist and curator of Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman